Page from an unknown Book, possibly one on the Boys Brigade featuring Piper James Richardson, VC. It mentions that he was an "Old Boy" from the 2nd Rutherglen Company where he learned to play the bagpipes. Pages 24 and 25. The Boys' Brigade is an interdenominational Christian youth organisation, conceived by Sir William Alexander Smith to combine drill and fun activities with Christian values. Following its inception in Glasgow in 1883, the BB quickly spread across the United Kingdom and became a worldwide organisation by the early 1890s until the present. Attached to Media.